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10 months ago

Rock Lizard I was up in the northern Nevada desert the other weekend hunting for copper minerals like malachite, azurite & chrysocolla. Hiking around various mines there were bugs and…

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about 1 month ago

A Run, A Walk, Two Rocks And Some Food In Tokyo I went downtown yesterday to see the new Mineral Museum my friends are opening in Ginza. Along the way I stopped off in Shibuya for a light breakfast at Starbucks. ![](

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11 months ago

Franken Finger, The Conclusion Be warned, the photos below will show my finger in all it's mutant glory. With that said, here's what happened with my pinky finger up until today. I left off with the day…

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about 2 months ago

Mineral Mondays #87 California Sapphires A couple of weeks ago I re-re-discovered an important corundum deposit in California. The deposit has been talked about for 100 years, but due to it's size and remote location, it has stay

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2 months ago

Falling Off The Edge Of The World - Three Tune Tuesday I climbed a mountain today looking for sapphires & rubies, aka corundum. It almost killed me as I didn't bring enough water, the temperature reached about 78deg and I had on…

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4 months ago

The Art Of The Stone - Mineral Mondays #85 A trend lately in Japan is accenting your office space or home with minerals and crystals, in part thanks to a Men's magazine, Brutus . ![](

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over 1 year ago

Happy New Year! 2024 This Is Fine What a way to ring in the new year in Japan. If you hadn't heard Japan's West Coast suffered a large, 7.6 magnitude earthquake yesterday followed by a tsunami. Thankfully the tsunami wasn't big enough

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4 months ago

Mineral Mondays #86 See Ya In Tucson The Largest Gem & Mineral Show In The World Far away from Tokyo, in a foreign land lies Tucson(Two-sawn), a city in Southern Arizona. It was made famous by the many silver and mineral mines in the surrounding areas in the…

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3 months ago

Smoky & The Bandit And The Banded Fluorite? Entry For Reflection Hunters #205 Yesterday I was heading home from the Tucson Gem and Mineral shows, but I didn't quite feel like I had enough mineral hunting. So I fired up Mindat.org to see if there were any…

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9 months ago

Pink Topaz & The Excavator - My Entry For SMASh Round 331 I have to admit, I have a hard time finding shadow photos worth sharing, but I got one I liked recently. I'll get to it later in this post. First the story behind it. I was up…

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